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A Matter of Discretion. The Politics of Catholic Priest in the United States and IrelandCalfano, Brian Robert, Melissa R. Michelson, and Elizabeth A. Oldmixon (2017) Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Study of Sisters of Charity in France & merged religious congregations in Switzerland; as members' average ages increased, they turned to care for the aging, including their own members, running facilities within government programs designed for all aged persons.

With a background of secularization, where ordinary practice is ancillary to extraordinary experiences, Catholic Action, charismatic renewal, and Catholic-affiliated scouting represent different aspects of Catholicism. Only the charismatics resist modernity.

Based on interviews with Maronite female mystics who bear the marks of the stigmata, which appear on Good Friday. Focuses particularly on one. Pictures & statues are important in home churches, though de-emphasized as Latin rite imports in the official churches.

Based on 2004-06 interviews with women in Catholic groups in Quito. Conversion experiences after a period of dissatisfaction with traditional Catholicism led to maintaining an individualized personal Catholicism, sometimes at odds with official Church teachings.

Based on 2007-10 participant observation, interviews, and survey data from Filipino Americans in Houston. Involvement in religious organizations facilitated Houston Filipino volunteers in assisting Filipinos displaced from New Orleans and elsewhere on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Church attendance and religious change in Italy, 1968-2010: A multilevel analysis of pooled datasets. Vezzoni, Cristiano, and Ferruccio Biolcati-Rialdi (2015) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54:1: 100-118.

Assembles 1968-2005 mass attendance data from Italy.

Associated Search Terms: Catholic, Italy; Italy; Practice

Inequality and the altruistic life: A study of the priestly vocation rate. Fishman, Robert M., Carlos Gervasoni, and Keely Jones Stater (2015) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54:3: 575-595.

Analyzes 2008 interview data from English-speaking Catholic participants in a World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. Prayer was not for obtaining this-worldly advantages but expressive of a relationship with God. Frequency of prayer correlated with Catholic practice & belief &with civic engagement.

analyzes 2006 telephone interview data from Latino Americans. Catholicism serves as a bridge to the ethnic homeland & positively predicts use of Spanish in the home while Protestantism reflects a break with the ethnicity & inversely predicts use of Spanish in the home.

Based on participant observation & life history interviews with a group of non-heterosexual Christians in Poland. Members tended to be educated, have religiously diverse backgrounds, to have experienced social mobility, & if from small towns to have experienced geographical mobility--all leading them to challenge tradition within the majority Catholic religion.

Role of some religious orders & congregations in creating autonomous space for modernization in Quebec; focuses on the case of he Viatorians, whose American-like educational program was autonomous from that of the classical curriculum traditionally favored by the higher clergy.

Based on interviews with former Catholic priests in the U.S.A. who became pastors in Protestant churches, most in the Episcopal church but some in the Evangelical Lutheran & United churches. For most, celibacy had been a burden.

2008-09 participant observation & interview data from a northern Indiana formerly Polish parish into which a Mexican parish was merged. The merger did not work; 2 conflicting communities were juxtaposed.

Based on 2008-11 field work, interviews, & questionnaire data from current & former sisters in Ontario. Respondents constructed "church" often from a feminist & social justice orientation rather than the official hierarchical one.

E-mail inquiries to a sample of churches, ostensibly from families moving to the geographical area of each church. Ostensible names varied to communicate white, African American, Latino, or Asian identity. Responses from Mainline Protestant churches showed discrimination.

The electronic frontier of Catholicism in Poland: An answer to the crisis of religious community?Kolodziejska, Marta (2014) In Gladys Ganiel, Heidemarie Winkel, and Christophe Monnot (eds.) Religion in Times of Crisis. Leiden: Brill, pp. 54-71.

Based on on-line observation of chat rooms of online Polish Catholic web sites. Discussions bridged divides, including non-believers & those with questions that would not be readily posed in off-line settings.

Associated Search Terms: Catholic, Poland; Internet; Poland

Euthanasia and the Belgian Catholic World. Voyé, Liliane, and Karel Dobbelaere (2014) In K. Dobbelaere and A. Pérez-Agote (eds.) The Intimate: New Conflicts between Religion and Polity. Laws about Life, Death and the Family in So-called Catholic Countries. Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven.

Religious faith and the market economy: A survey on faith and trust of Catholic entrereneurs in China.Gao, Shining, and Fengang Yang (2014) In Jürgen von Hagen and Michael Welker (eds.) Money as God?: The Monetization of the market and Its Impact on Religion, Politics, Law and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 339-361.

Religious institutions and sexual scandals: A comparative study of Catholicism in Ireland, South Africa, and the United States. Conway, Brian (2014) International Journal of Comparative Sociology 55:4: 318-341.

Catholic young adults' attitudes toward the church's pro-life teachings: A bellwether for the church's political strategy?Pratt, Tia Noelle (2014) Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 10:3: 1-21.

Religiosity and politics in Spain and Poland: A period effect analysis. Requena, Miguel, and Mikolaj Stanek (2014) Social Compass 61:3: 348-367.

The Catholic Church legitimated authoritarian rule in Spain & opposed it in Poland. After the fall of Franco in Spain & Communism in Poland, both nations experienced secularization, but moreso in Spain.